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List of largest funerals

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Summary

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This list of notable funerals represents significant historical funerals, based on both the number of attendants and estimated television audience.

FuneralDateCountryCityNo. of attendeesTelevision audience
C. N. AnnaduraiFebruary 4, 1969IndiaMadras
Qasem SoleimaniJanuary 5, 2020IranAhvaz and Mashhad
January 6, 2020url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/million-man-soleimani-funeral-procession-said-to-be-largest-since-khomeini/title='Million mourner' Soleimani funeral procession said to be largest since Khomeiniwebsite=The Times of Israelissn=0040-7909}}
January 7, 2020Kerman
Dahiru Usman BauchiNovember 28, 2025NigeriaBauchi
Pope John Paul IIApril 8, 2005Vatican CityRome2,000,000,000
Umm KulthumFebruary 5, 1975EgyptCairo
Indira GandhiNovember 3, 1984IndiaDelhi
M.G. RamachandranDecember 25, 1987IndiaMadras
Puneeth RajkumarOctober 29, 2021IndiaBengaluru
Eva PerónAugust 9, 1952ArgentinaBuenos Aires
Ayrton SennaMay 5, 1994BrazilSão Paulo
Gamal Abdel NasserOctober 1, 1970United Arab RepublicCairo
Chiang Kai-shekApril 10–16, 1975TaiwanTaipei
Ruhollah KhomeiniJune 5–6, 1989IranMausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran
Victor HugoJune 1, 1885FranceParis
Benigno Aquino Jr.August 31, 1983PhilippinesSanto Domingo Church and Manila Memorial Park – Sucat, Metro Manila
Berkin ElvanMarch 12, 2014TurkeyIstanbul
Houari BoumédièneDecember 29, 1978AlgeriaAlgiers
J. JayalalithaaDecember 6, 2016IndiaChennai
Kim Il-sungJuly 19, 1994North KoreaPyongyang
Mahatma GandhiFebruary 6, 1948IndiaNew Delhi
Park Chung-heeNovember 3, 1979South KoreaSeoul
Ziaur RahmanJune 2, 1981BangladeshDhaka
Khaleda ZiaDecember 30, 2025BangladeshDhaka
Bal ThackerayNovember 18–19, 2012IndiaShivaji Park, Mumbai
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonNovember 18, 1852United KingdomLondon
Jawaharlal NehruMay 28, 1964IndiaNew Delhi
Hassan NasrallahFebruary 23, 2025LebanonCamille Chamoun, Beirut
Juan PerónJuly 2–4, 1974ArgentinaBuenos Aires
Hugo ChávezMarch 6–8, 2013VenezuelaCaracas
Akhtar Raza KhanJuly 20, 2018IndiaBareilly
Enrico BerlinguerJune 13, 1984ItalyRome
GP KoiralaMarch 20, 2010NepalKathmandu{{cite newstitle=Girija Prasad Koirala cremated with state honoursaccessdate=Jun 21, 2024newspaper=The Hindudate=March 21, 2010}}
Ibrahim RugovaJanuary 27, 2006{{flagKosovoPrishtina
Johnny HallydayDecember 9, 2017FranceParis
M. KarunanidhiAugust 8, 2018IndiaChennai
Mother TeresaSeptember 13, 1997IndiaCalcutta
Muhammad Zia Ul HaqAugust 19, 1988PakistanIslamabad
Pope Shenouda IIIMarch 20, 2012EgyptCairo
Diana, Princess of WalesSeptember 6, 1997United KingdomLondon and Althorp, Northamptonshire
(2,000 at funeral service)url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/6/newsid_2502000/2502307.stmtitle= 1997: Diana's funeral watched by millionswork=BBC Newsaccess-date=January 11, 2017}}
Queen Elizabeth IISeptember 19, 2022United KingdomLondon
(2,000 at funeral service)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen MotherApril 9, 2002United KingdomLondon
Mao ZedongSeptember 9–18, 1976ChinaBeijing
Nelson Mandela (memorial service)December 10–15, 2013South AfricaJohannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu
1,000 for Memorial Service
Võ Nguyên GiápOctober 12–13, 2013VietnamHanoi
Ovadia YosefOctober 7, 2013IsraelJerusalem
King Hussein of JordanFebruary 8, 1999JordanAmman
Pierre GemayelNovember 23, 2006LebanonBeirut
Mir Osman Ali KhanFebruary 25, 1967IndiaHyderabad
Chaim KanievskyMarch 20, 2022IsraelBnei Brak
Zubeen GargSeptember 21–22, 2025IndiaGuwahati
Josip Broz TitoMay 8, 1980YugoslaviaBelgrade
Pedro Aguirre CerdaNovember 28, 1941ChileSantiago
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkNovember 11, 1938TurkeyAnkara
Carter Harrison IIIOctober 31–November 1, 1893United StatesChicago– (funeral procession)
(public visitation of open casket)
John F. KennedyNovember 25, 1963United StatesWashington, D.C.
Georgi AsparuhovJune 30–July 2, 1971BulgariaSofia
Tomáš Garrigue MasarykSeptember 21, 1937CzechoslovakiaPrague
Juan GabrielSeptember 4–5, 2016MexicoCiudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Mexico City
August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons (executed Haymarket Affair defendants)November 13, 1887United StatesChicago
Baruch Charney VladeckNovember 2, 1938United StatesNew York City-750,000
BP KoiralaJuly 21, 1982NepalKathmandu
B. R. AmbedkarDecember 6, 1956IndiaMumbai
Carmen MirandaAugust 12, 1955BrazilRio de Janeiro
Buenaventura DurrutiNovember 23, 1936Second Spanish RepublicBarcelona
Engelbert DollfussJuly 30, 1934Federal State of AustriaVienna
Michael CollinsAugust 28, 1922IrelandDublin
Patriarchh PavleNovember 19, 2009SerbiaRakovica Monastery, Belgrade
Sathya Sai BabaApril 24, 2011IndiaPuttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh
Winston ChurchillJanuary 30, 1965United KingdomLondon
(6,000 at funeral service)
Osman HadiDecember 20, 2025BangladeshDhaka
Necmettin ErbakanMarch 1, 2011TurkeyIstanbul
Pope FrancisApril 21–26, 2025Vatican CityRome
Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniJanuary 9–11, 2017IranTehran
Francisco FrancoNovember 22–23, 1975SpainMadrid
Fernando Poe Jr.December 22, 2004PhilippinesSanto Domingo Church and Manila North Cemetery, Metro Manila
Giuseppe VerdiFebruary 27, 1901ItalyMilan
January 30, 1901
Martin Luther King Jr.April 9, 1968United StatesAtlanta
John MonashOctober 11, 1931AustraliaMelbourne
Abdulbaki ErolJuly 13, 2023TurkeyAdıyaman
Hendrik VerwoerdSeptember 10, 1966South AfricaPretoria
Heydar AliyevDecember 15, 2003AzerbaijanBaku
Charles de GaulleNovember 12, 1970FranceColombey
Józef PiłsudskiMay 18, 1935PolandKraków
Sholem AleichemMay 13, 1916United StatesNew York City
Emperor HirohitoFebruary 24, 1989JapanTokyo
Ho Chi MinhSeptember 9, 1969North VietnamHanoi
PeléJanuary 2–3, 2023BrazilSantos
Wali RahmaniApril 4, 2021IndiaMunger
Pedro II of BrazilDecember 9, 1891FranceParis
Mohammed BurhanuddinJanuary 17, 2014IndiaRaudat Tahera, Mumbai
Anton CermakMarch 8–10, 1933United StatesChicagohundreds of thousands: ~50,000 mourners for return of mayor's remains to city (March 8); ~25,000 spectators at funeral service in Chicago Stadium (March 10); ~50,000 marchers and "hundreds of thousands" of additional mourners at funeral procession (March 10)
Burhan WaniJuly 8, 2016IndiaPulwama
Hrant DinkJanuary 23, 2007TurkeyIstanbul
Khadim Hussain RizviNovember 21, 2020PakistanLahore
Kim Jong-ilDecember 28, 2011North KoreaPyongyang
Paul von HindenburgAugust 6–7, 1934Nazi GermanyTannenberg Memorial, Hohenstein in Ostpreußen
Wilhelm IMarch 12–16, 1888German EmpireBerlin
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl LiebknechtJune 13, 1919Weimar RepublicBerlin
Huey LongSeptember 12, 1935United StatesBaton Rouge
Jānis ČaksteMarch 18, 1927LatviaRīga
Rafic HaririFebruary 16, 2005LebanonBeirut
Pope Benedict XVIJanuary 5, 2023Vatican CityRome
Roman DmowskiJanuary 7, 1939PolandWarsaw
Zoran ĐinđićMarch 15, 2003FR YugoslaviaBelgrade
Imre Nagy (reburial)June 16, 1989HungaryBudapest
Yaakov Yisrael KanievskyAugust 12, 1985IsraelBnei Brak
Halid BešlićOctober 13, 2025Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevoover 1,000,000
Lech and Maria KaczyńskiApril 18, 2010PolandKraków
Abraham LincolnApril 19 – May 3, 1865United StatesEast and Midwest
Corazon AquinoAugust 1–5, 2009PhilippinesManila Cathedral and Manila Memorial Park – Sucat, Metro Manila(August 3 figures only)
Ronald ReaganJune 7, 2004United StatesSimi Valley, California and Washington, D.C.
Otto von HabsburgJuly 16, 2011AustriaVienna
Uğur MumcuJanuary 27, 1993TurkeyIstanbul
Aleksandar RankovićAugust 22, 1983YugoslaviaBelgrade
Alparslan TürkeşApril 8, 1997TurkeyAnkara
Kostis PalamasFebruary 12, 1943GreeceAthens
Édith PiafOctober 11, 1963FrancePère Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Bob MarleyMay 21, 1981JamaicaKingston
Bobby SandsMay 7, 1981UKBelfast
Henry GeorgeOctober 29, 1897United StatesNew York City
Lee Kuan YewMarch 23–29, 2015SingaporeMandai(funeral cortege)
Lorenzo BandiniMay 10, 1967ItalyReggiolo
Mahmut UstaosmanoğluJune 24, 2022TurkeyIstanbul
Muhammad Ali (memorial service)June 10, 2016United StatesLouisville, Kentucky(funeral procession)
15,000 (memorial service)1,000,000,000
Robert MenziesMay 19, 1978AustraliaMelbourne
Turgut ÖzalApril 21, 1993TurkeyAnkara
Gianni AgnelliJanuary 26, 2003ItalyTurin
paid their respects while he laid in state
Yahya AyyashJanuary 6, 1996PalestineGaza
Yisroel Avrohom PortugalApril 2, 2019United StatesBrooklyn, New York City
Zubayer Ahmad AnsariApril 18, 2020BangladeshBrahmanbaria
Bhupen HazarikaNovember 9-5, 2011IndiaGuwahati
Joel TeitelbaumAugust 20, 1979United StatesKiryas Joel
Simcha Bunim AlterJune 8, 1992IsraelMount of Olives
Elvis PresleyAugust 16–18, 1977United StatesMemphis
Charlie KirkSeptember 21, 2025United StatesGlendale
Selena Quintanilla-PérezApril 3, 1995United StatesCorpus Christi, Texas
Juliana of the NetherlandsMarch 30, 2004NetherlandsDelft3,246,000
Richard NixonApril 26–27, 1994United StatesRichard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California
Jaime GarzónAugust 14, 1999ColombiaBogotá
Yisrael AlterFebruary 21, 1977IsraelMount of Olives
Meir ShapiroOctober 29, 1933PolandLublin
André HazesSeptember 27, 2004NetherlandsAmsterdam6,000,000 (5 million in the Netherlands and 1 million in Belgium)
Gershon AgronNovember 2, 1959IsraelJerusalem{{cite weblast1=Lidorfirst1=Canaantitle='Like Moses': Hundreds of thousands attend funeral for Rabbi Gershon Edelsteinwork=The Times of Israeldate=May 30, 2023 }}
Ozjasz ThonNovemer 12, 1936PolandKraków
Ludwig van BeethovenMarch 29, 1827Austrian EmpireVienna
Rico YanApril 4, 2002PhilippinesManila Memorial Park – Sucat, Parañaque
Moshe TeitelbaumAugust 25, 2006United StatesWillamsburg and Kiryas Joel
Aharon RokeachAugust 18, 1957IsraelHar HaMenuchot
Michael Jackson (memorial service)July 7, 2009United StatesStaples Center, Los Angeles3,000,000,000
Hank WilliamsJanuary 4, 1960United StatesMontgomery
John GarfieldMay 23, 1952United StatesNew York
Kahlil GibranAugust 21, 1931LebanonBeirut & Bsharri
Rudolph ValentinoAugust 30, 1926United StatesNew York City
Wisława SzymborskaFebruary 9, 2012PolandKraków
Czesław MiłoszAugust 27, 2004PolandKraków
Ömer HalisdemirJuly 17, 2016TurkeyÇukurkuyu, Niğde
Dursun KarataşAugust 11, 2008TurkeyIstanbul
Gerald FordDecember 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007United StatesWashington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Michigan
Cecilia GentiliJanuary 31, 1972 – February 6, 2024United StatesNew York City
Wojciech JaruzelskiMay 30, 2014PolandWarsaw
Bhumibol AdulyadejOctober 26, 2017ThailandBangkok
George H. W. BushDecember 3–6, 2018United StatesWashington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas
Lata MangeshkarFebruary 6, 2022IndiaMumbai
Margaret ThatcherApril 17, 2013United KingdomLondon
Pierre TrudeauOctober 3, 2000CanadaMontreal
Krzysztof KrawczykApril 10, 2021PolandGrotniki
Pim FortuynMay 10, 2002NetherlandsDriehuis(at service)2,000,000

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